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Pacific art on the world stage, Ian Lochhead

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

Art in Oceania: A New History Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas (eds) Thames and Hudson, $130.00, ISBN 9780500239018 When New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened its landmark exhibition Arts of the South Seas in 1946, the war in…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Ian Lochhead, Issue 101, Nicholas Thomas, Peter Brunt, Thames and Hudson
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review

Eminent people and unmade beds, Ann Beaglehole

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

My Life in Two Halves: A Memoir Betty Gilderdale David Bateman, $30.00, ISBN 978186953832 Before I Forget Jacqueline Fahey Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869405816 The Lost Woman Sydney Smith Text, $40.00, ISBN 9781921922480 Freud, who supposedly said that he…

Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Betty Gilderdale, David Bateman, Issue 101, Jacqueline Fahey, Sydney Smith, Text
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review

Unlacing corsets, Isa Moynihan

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

The Girl Below Bianca Zander Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143568377 The Invisible Rider Kirsten McDougall (drawings by Gerard Crewdson) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864737670 Houses of Stone David L Bateman David Bateman, $30.00, ISBN 9781869538293 All three works are first…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Isa Moynihan, Issue 101
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Becoming somebody, Angelina Sbroma

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

The Brain Sucker Glenn Wood Walker Books, $19.00, ISBN 9781921933633 The Queen and the Nobody Boy Barbara Else Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877579233 How to Sell Toothpaste Leonie Thorpe HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509422 Glenn Wood’s The Brain Sucker is the…

Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Autumn 2013, Barbara Else, Gecko Press, Glenn Wood, HarperCollins, Issue 101, Leonie Thorpe, Walker Books
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Poem – Jo Thorpe

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

This lovely hand of yours The fine warmth and pulse of it – beauty gets a sounding in the oldest skin, it takes the flutterings of veins and chimes them through. The mind slows and alters – as in…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Issue 101, Jo Thorpe
Posted in Poem

Becoming heroic, Garth Baker

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

The Open Side Richie McCaw (with Greg McGee) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712761 Valerie: The Autobiography Valerie Adams (with Phil Gifford) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712624 Let’s start with the numbers, all big. The initial 60,000 print run of Richie…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Garth Baker, Greg McGee, Hodder Moa, Issue 101, Phil Gifford, Richie McCaw, Valerie Adams
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport

The quality question, Chris Else

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869405892 I have a conflict of interest here: I am one of those writers with a substantial body of published…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Chris Else, Issue 101, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams
Posted in Literature, Review

Alternate lives, Louise O’Brien

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

Don Vicente’s Daughter and Other Stories John Parkyn Oceanbooks, price unavailable, ISBN 978192715012 All the Voices Cry Alice Petersen Biblioasis, $15.95, ISBN 978196845524 Ancestry Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781775500377 John Parkyn’s first volume of short stories, Don Vicente’s Daughter…

Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Alice Petersen, Autumn 2013, Biblioasis, Huia, Issue 101, John Parkyn, Louise O’Brien, Oceanbooks
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

One in every home, Hilary Stace

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

The Raupo Dictionary of Modern Maori P M Ryan Raupo, $60.00, ISBN 9780143567899 Every household and office in Aotearoa New Zealand will have times when they need an easy-to-use Maori dictionary. As more te reo words and phrases drift into…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Hilary Stace, Issue 101, P M Ryan, Raupo
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review

Acts of God and government, Brian Easton

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

The Christchurch Fiasco: The Insurance Aftershock and its Implications for New Zealand and Beyond Sarah Miles Dunmore Publishing, $38.00, ISBN 9781927212035 Given New Zealand’s reputation as The Shaky Isles, together with its accompanying history of deluges, hurricanes, landslips, tsunamis and…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Brian Easton, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 101, Sarah Miles
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology